A RIVER RUNS PUTRID: A SUMMER OF FILTH, 1858

The city of London sweltered in the heat of summer, 1858. But it was not merely the sun that parched the metropolis. An even more unpleasant engineering feats force infested its very heart: the River Thames. Years of industrial discharges had transformed London's lifeblood into a stench. The stench was all-consuming, a miasma that clung to every co

The year 845 AD. A chill wind swept across the Seine River, carrying with it the scent of salt and fear. The Norsemen were upon us, a horde swarm of warriors seeking plunder. Their longships, like beasts of the north, sliced through the waters, their banners waving in the wind. A city once peaceful now trembled beneath the shadow of Valhalla's embr